platform of making America great again without specifying the period of American greatness he was trying to return to, since America is still the biggest economy in the world.
In his first term, his bizarre dalliance with despotic leaders like Putin and Kim Jung Un should have revealed a leader who has an inferiority complex, who envies those leaders’ absolute control and power over their citizens by threat of force.
As an actor, he is primarily interested in optics and to drive home his theatrics he dramatically renamed the department of defense into the department of war and unfortunately appointed a delusional warmonger as the secretary.
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What we tend to blame as a failure of democracy is actually a failure of individual temperament and the reason why it is so important that people elect people of character and integrity to positions of power to prevent societal deterioration. a department of war if one does not have wars and since appearing resolute and strong is important to his self-image as the mighty American conqueror and savior, his aggression turned him into a global bully.
started flexing his muscle to prove to the world that he was the greatest leader that America has had. With low self-awareness and zero diplomacy he began his assault on the world to claim his imaginary position.
He launched a self-destructive tariff war with the whole world but soon realized that his intended result where the world would kneel before him and beg to trade with America, his own words, was backfiring and harming his own people.
Nothing is more dangerous than a wounded ego of a conceited and self-centered individual and the world was to soon feel the effect of a spoiled brat throwing tantrums because he did not get his way and the world was laughing at him.
He picked a fight with Canada, dramatically stating that the citizens had indicated to him their desire to join the great Unites States as the fifty-first state. We know how that went down, for him it was like adding salt to a wound, he was livid by the rejection and ridicule.
To save face, he turned his attention elsewhere and declared, out of the blues,
or invade Greenland, a territory governed by Denmark, as the country was of strategic
last-ditch effort to show his MAGA base that he is truly a mighty leader his sent his forces into Venezuela to abduct its president on charges of being a kingpin in the drug trafficking trade into America.
He then declared that he is now running Venezuela, although to the world this seems not only crazy and unconscionable, but removing an unpopular dictator, who the people believe was in power with American acquiescence did not buy love for Americans.
Emboldened by the successful subterfuge in Venezuela, America quietly blockaded Cuba with no clear agenda except perhaps that a demented and embarrassed president is hellbent on having a territorial expansion to flaunt to his political base.
actually stupid joint invasion of Iran by
was ill-advised especially considering that the two countries’ reasons for wanting a weak Iran are divergent.
In one impulsive and an unauthorized war strike, the American president was supposedly showing decisiveness and even bragged that he had done what no previous American president dared do after trashing the Obama treaty that controlled Iran nuclear ambitions.
His strategy or lack thereof has not only destabilized the fragile peace in the Middle East but has put American allies in a dangerous and delicate position where they are sitting ducks without the ability to retaliate to avoid a potentially disastrous escalation.
American presidents avoided such a move and the last attempt was the Iraq invasion that ended in grief for the American people. America is now holding a really hot potato which might explode way out of control. globally and the main victim of this action is the American people and its economy. What was supposed to be a show of greatness is fast turning to be a show of gross stupidity.
What is however being missed in this unfolding situation is the blatant assault on the revered tenets of democracy by unscrupulous individuals in the very country that is considered the cradle of real democracy.
fledgling democracies around the world who are watching with fascination the ongoings in America and whose despotic tendencies are being vindicated by the American choice of an incompetent clown for a president.
is necessary for progress negates the historical proof of American development and the imminent danger that unlimited power leads to dictatorial tendencies and hence the time-honored separation of powers in democracies.
What we tend to blame as a failure of democracy is actually a failure of individual temperament and the reason why it is so important that people elect people of character and integrity to positions of power to prevent societal deterioration.